These would be the European teams that the Colombian team would face on the next FIFA date

Over the next few weeks, club football will come to a halt to make way for international calls where various friendlies will take place on the famous FIFA date. The expected call for the Colombian selection is gradually approaching, but despite the fact that these matches have not yet been played, the coach Nestor Laurent He is already thinking of the June date.

For the international break scheduled for mid-year, the Argentinian strategist has already made a special request to the Colombian Football Federation. Lorenzo has reportedly already asked the federation to have European rivals for friendlies.

As reported by the journalist Sebastien Vargas, the national coach wants to be more competitive in the working group and what better than to face a team from the old continent. However, due to the calendar provided by the UEFA federations, such as the Nations League or the Euro 2024there are few options available.

So far, countries like Poland, Serbia there Azerbaijan, are the only ones to have their schedules available for a friendly match, the Polish team being the most attractive of all. The last time the Tricolor against a European team, it was in July 2018 during the 2018 World Cup in Russia, where they were eliminated by England in the round of 16.

In total, five years have passed without the national team being able to measure its strength against a European and if Lorenzo wants to succeed in his sporting project, it is almost an obligation to weigh his players against those of the friendly continent.

The team led by the Argentinian, will have its first competitive challenges in 2023 on the March FIFA date. Together Coffee machine will travel to Asian soil to face the selection of South Korea and the 28th of the same month Japanwho made a good presentation at the last World Cup in Qatar 2022.

About these next evenings the journalist Julien Capera He claimed through his social networks that Lorenzo would have already warned two footballers in advance that they would be part of the senior team. According to published information, the Federation have already contacted the Portland Timbers to release the winger santiago moreno and the right side Juan David Mosquera on this date of friendly matches.

Calling on these footballers will continue to be part of the process the coach has built Gaucho with the main idea of ​​”renewal” in his head, especially since there are young footballers who have shown the potential to be part of at least two World Cup processes.

This new opportunity Lorenzo will be able to continue building the team that will play the so-called World Cup qualifiers in Mexico/USA/Canada, which will be more flexible in terms of quotas.

A short time ago, while developing the FIFA The Best awards ceremony, in conversation with TyC Sports, Alejandro Domínguez, President of the South American Football Confederationsaid the 2026 World Cup qualifiers are unlikely to start in June as planned.

According to what the manager said, it is almost a fact that the qualifications would start in the second half of the year, as it has been done in the last editions, although nothing has been decided 100% yet. .

In recent days, the selections of Brazil, Ecuador, Uruguay there Chile They have reportedly asked CONMEBOL to set September as the start month for the qualifiers as they still don’t have a proper coaching staff and it could affect their World Cup qualification process.